Reel for conducting cords



Dec. 4, 1928.

c BLEsSMAN, JR

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Patented Dec, 4, 19128.

CHARLES BLESSMAN, JR., 0F TOLEDO, OHIO, .ASSICrNOR TO THE REEL' NOVELTY MFG.

A 1,693,884 PATENT OFFICE.

` CO., OF TOLEDO, OHIO, A CORPORATION 0F OHIO.

REEL FOR CON DUCTING CORDS.

Application led March 11, 1926. Serial No. 94,029.

This invention relates to improvements in reels for conducting cords and more particularly to an improvement of the reel structure shown in Patent, No. 1,464,631, granted August 14, 1923, to Fred J. Spuehler, for reel for conducting cords.

A further and more specific object of the invention is to provide novel and improved means for establishing connections between the cord applied to the reel and a source of current.

A further' object of the invention is to provide a'structure of this character which may be very readily assembled and which is neat in its appearance.

` A still further object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which will be durable and efficient in service and a general improvement in the art.

These and other objects -I attain by the construction shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein for the purpose of illustration is shown a preferred embodiment 0f my invention and wherein Figure 1 is a plan view of a reel for conducting cords constructed in accordance with my invention;

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view therethrough on the line 2-2 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fi gure 2;

Figure 4 is a section on the line 4 4 of Figure 2;

Figure 5 is an end elevation of the reel.

Referring now more particularl to the drawings, the numeral 10 general y designates a base, the side edges of which are downbent to provide supporting walls 11 having at their lower ends out-turned feet 12 perforated for the reception of'securing elements, as indicated at 13. One side wall 11 has suitabl mounted thereon at its inner face a p-air of blinding posts 14, the outer ends of which are continued beyond the outer face of the wall 11 to provide conducting` pins for engagement with a cord 15 leading to a suitable source of current. Arising from opposite ends of the base 10 are end members 16, eachv having an angular iange 17 which, at the lower end of the end member,is"suitably secured to the base 10, as indicated at 18. base 10 and flange 18 at the engaged portions thereof have aligned openings 19 for the passage of conducting wires 20 forming leads from thebinding postsV 14. Each end member The ' flanges 17 thereof at such upper ends will have 16 has engagement with one enc of a shaft 21 in such fashion that the shaft is held against rotation. .Rotatably mounted upon this shaft is a drum 22 consisting of a cylinder 23 and end members 24, each` comprising two disks 25 and 26, the disk 25 being of the same internal diameter as the cylinder 23r while the disk 26 is of greater diameter than such cylinder. The end members are glued or otherwise secured to the cylinder and the disks of the end members are held in assembled relation to one another and to a contact element 27 co-axial therewith and arranged upon the outer faces thereof by rivets 28 or the like. The shaft 21 intermediate the end vmembers 24 has secured thereto one end of a coil spring 29 which is loosely wound about the shaft and has its opposite ends secured to the drum 22, as at 30.

The contact element 27 hereinbefore mentioned includes a cup-shaped body 31, the bottom of which has an opening 32 of greater size than the shaft 21 and this bottom is spaced from the adjacent face of the end member 16'when the drum 22 is centrally located upon the shaft. The rim of the cupshaped member has a flange 33 through which. the rivets 28 are directed. Surrounding the shaft between each end member 24 of the drum 22 and the end member 16 of the base is an insulating sleeve 34. A ber plate 35 is provided having an opening of the same size as the external diameter of the sleeve and the inner face. of this fiber' plate has secured thereto a copper plate 36 which is held in engagement with the face of the contact element 27 by a spring 37 extending between the fiber plate 35 and the adjacent face of the end member 1G. This spring constantly maintains a contact between the Contact elements formed by the copper plate 36 and member 27. Each lead 20 is soldered or otherwise secured to the copper plate 36, as at 38. The wall of the cylinder 23 has an opening through which a two-'wire conducting cord 39 may be led and within the drum, this cord has its wires separated and led through openings 40 in the end members 24 of the drum and electrically secured to the contact elements 27. It will be obvious that by giving the upper end of the end members 16 the proper conformation, the

close engagement with the peripheries of the kdisk 26 of the end members 2 4 so that an effec-A tive seal is provided, preventing entrance ofl anything which may cause short circuiting of the contact elements 27 or 36 with the frame.

It will also be obvious that a structure of this character may be very readily and cheaply assembled and will be durable and efiicient in service.

Since this structure is obviously capable of a certain range of change and modiication without materially departing from the spirit of the invention, I do not limit myself to such specific structure except as' hereinafter' claimed. Y

In a reel for conducting cords, a base, a pair of end members arising therefrom, a stationary shaft supported by the end members, a hollow drum rotatable upon the shaft intermediate the end members, a spring connecting the shaft and drum and tending to constantly urge the drum in one direction, a circular contact element carried by each end of the drum and spaced from theshaft,

la cord wound upon the drum and including conducting wires respectively connected to the contact elements at theends of the drum, contact elements surrounding the shaft at the ends of the drum in confronting relation to thevcontact'elements of the drum, insulating plates likewise surrounding the shafhand arranged outwardly of the last named contact element-s, springs extending between the end members and the insulating plates and constantly urging 'the last named contact elements into engagement withthe contact elements of the drum and sleeves surrounding the endsof the shaft between the ends ofthe drum and the end members holding the drum against longitudinal displacement upon the .shaft and insulating said contact elements from the shaft.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aix my signature.

CHARLES BLEssM-AN, JR. 

